Cello Sonata in E minor, Op. 66
by Laura Netzel
- Instrumentation
- Cello, Piano
- Composed
- 1899
- Duration
- 16'20''
- Publisher
- Public Domain
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About this piece
Laura Netzel published this three-movement sonata in 1899 with N. Simrock in Berlin (plate 11320) under her pseudonym 'N. Lago', with a dedication to Gaston Courras. Swedish Musical Heritage describes Netzel's music generally as 'late Romantic, chromatic style, with touches of contemporary French music', and notes that the Stockholm critic Adolf Lindgren complained that 'Lago seems to have a genuine horror of being simple and clear'. The sonata opens with an Allegro moderato in E minor, has a G-major Cantabile with a contrasting E-flat con moto middle section, and ends with an Allegro appassionato in E major. Ola Karlsson (cello) and Lucia Negro (piano) recorded it for the Musica Sveciae album 'Kammarmusik' (2012). A free, corrected engraving with a separate cello part is available from Swedish Musical Heritage (Levande Musikarv emended edition no. 543, 2015), and IMSLP hosts both that edition and a scan of the 1899 Simrock print.
Technical overview
Three movements (I. Allegro moderato; II. Cantabile ma non troppo lento – con moto – Tempo I; III. Allegro appassionato), about 16 minutes. The cello part moves freely through bass, tenor and treble clefs, with sustained playing high on the A string, chromatic passagework, pizzicato, and chords and double stops in the finale.